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starring: Kevin Costner, Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins, Trey Wilson, Robert Wuhldirected by: Ron Shelton
Audience Rating: R (Restricted)
Binding: VHS Tape
EAN: 9780792843481
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, Original recording reissued, NTSC
ISBN: 0792843487
Label: MGM (Video & DVD)
Manufacturer: MGM (Video & DVD)
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: MGM (Video & DVD)
Release Date: February 01, 2000
Running Time: 108 minutes
Sales Rank: 6730
Studio: MGM (Video & DVD)
Theatrical Release Date: June 15, 1988
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Editorial Review:
Amazon.com essential video:
Bull Durham is about minor league baseball. It's also about romance, sex, poetry, metaphysics, and talent--though not necessarily in that order. Susan Sarandon plays a loopy lady who just loves America's national pastime--and the men who play it. At the opening of every season, she attaches herself to a promising rookie and guides him through the season. Unfortunately, the player she bestows her favors upon does not really deserve it. She knows it, and veteran Kevin Costner knows it. Her choice, a dim bulb played for laughs by Tim Robbins, is the only one who doesn't know it. The film, directed by its writer, Ron Shelton, a former minor league player, is rich in subtle detail. There are Edith Piaf records playing in the background, fast-talking managers, and minor characters as developed as the leads. Sarandon's retro-'50s outfits make you think she's just another bimbo, not an English teacher very much in control of her life. And Costner's clear-eyed, slightly vitriolic performance is devastatingly sexy and keenly witty. The love scenes, though tasteful, are almost as humorous as they are hot. Sarandon's character likes to tie her players up and expand their horizons by reading Walt Whitman to them, ''cause a guy will listen to anything if he thinks it's foreplay.' How can you not love a movie with such a wicked sense of humor? --Rochelle O'Gorman
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - a good classical 80's romantic baseball movie.........
a fun and exiting movie. but i would'nt recommend it for the whole family because of it's rating......
Rating: - If you like baseball, Bull Duram is a don't miss
Bull Duram is one of the top Baseball Movies out there. But it's not just a baseball movie. The development of the love triangle between Susan Sarandon, Tim Robbins and Kevin Costner gives the movie a nice story line. There is also a good bit of humor thrown into the mix. Bull Duram is a winner
Rating:  - the lady and baseball
Annie Savoy (Susan Sarandon), a groupie who has affairs with a minor-league baseball player each season, meets two men, LaLoosh (Tim Robbins) and Crash (Kevin Costner), the experienced catched assigned to LaLoosh. A comical story about baseball and sex. After all, "what else is there?"
Great roles for Sarandon, Robbins and Costner. Can't imagine anyone else playing these roles. Robbins is excellent as the dim "Nuke" LaLoosh.
Even if you don't know anything about baseball ... Read More
Rating: - Pure Baseball - I'm Not Kidding
I was a huge baseball fan when I worked in radio in the Kansas City area during the 70s and 80s when the Royals were a great team to watch. Part of the joy of watching them play was team leaders like George Brett and Frank White who were so passionate and honest about their love for the game, you couldn't help but enjoy watching them play. What does this have to do with a romantic comedy about minor leaguers and the absurdities of their team's misadventures in the Carolina league? Because ultimately, ... Read More
Rating:  - Vulgar and Offensive
Before I begin the review, I should take time to mention that I am a huge baseball fan. I rarely miss a game, follow it as if my life depends on it, and see more baseball games at the ballyard every year than I do movies. I also played when I was younger and have worked on baseball-related projects for my alma mater.
I had heard that Bull Durham was one of the best, if not the best, baseball movies ever made. As a fan of Field of Dreams and The Natural, I decided to go and rent this one. Figuring ... Read More
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